Refuge Chapel

The community around Refuge Chapel

It takes 7.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

• Child Poverty: 69.8%
• Obesity: 50.9%
• Social Isolation: 41.0%
• Food Insecurity: 38.0%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.7%
• Poverty Rate: 32.6% (21.0–44.3%)
• Housing Insecurity: 27.6%
• Diabetes: 23.4%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.6%
• Transportation Barriers: 19.5%
• Unemployment: 8.8% (3.6–14.1%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.4%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Refuge Chapel

• Quofaloma Church — 0.9 mi away in Tchula, MS
• Jones Chapel — 1.6 mi away
• Marcella Church — 2.3 mi away
• Thornton Church — 2.7 mi away in Tchula, MS
• Bethlehem Church — 2.8 mi away in Tchula, MS
• Good Hope Church — 3.8 mi away in Tchula, MS
• Goodhope MB Church — 3.8 mi away in Tchula, MS
• Sweet Kingdom Church — 4 mi away in Tchula, MS
• Promised Land Church — 4.1 mi away in Tchula, MS
• Mount Zion Church — 4.7 mi away in Tchula, MS